Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

He really is that stupid.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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  3. 3.

    Cacti

    My favorite Republican talking point:

    “Farmers and ranchers shouldn’t have to pay”

    Why the fuck not?

    We all pay for their agricultural subsidies.

  4. 4.

    Nora

    As George Takei would say, “Oh myyyyyy.” Good job, whoever’s doing this at the White House.

  7. 7.

    karen marie

    I am beyond delighted to see the Biden WH not just hitting back but hitting DIRECTLY back by quote tweeting the complaining Republican assholes.  That’s how you combat disinformation.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    I’m sure that, right now, there are political reporters moaning about loss of civility and clutching at pearls en route to the nearest fainting couch.

    Whatever.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    The GOP is the party of resentment, so anytime the Dems help anybody, it’s resentment stoking time.

  12. 12.

    geg6

    As expected, McMeghan has been everywhere screaming about how she paid off her $100k in grad loans.  After skimming over the fact that her parents bankrolled her undergrad.  And moral hazard, moral hazard, MORAL HAZARD!

  13. 13.

    Starfish

    Here is Jamie Foxx doing an impression of Donald Trump, and I don’t know why I find it so funny. The premise of asking Donald Trump about his favorite rap music just tickles me.

  16. 16.

    lee

    @geg6: ​
    She also skips over how she paid off those loans my going on TV and saying ‘Do you know who my father is?’

  19. 19.

    Wapiti

    What business does Matt Gaetz run that had $480k payroll? There’s nothing in his bio about a side job.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lee:

    Think you may possibly be conflating Megan McArdle with Meghan McCain. Equally awful, but different.

  24. 24.

    grumbles

    Asymmetric McMegan needs to stick to exhorting other peoples’ children to bumrush domestic terrorists, explaining how gastritis makes you bad with calculators and extolling the virtues of Himalayan pink salt.

    I mean, I know she’s angling for Nooner’s role (maybe absent the drinking problem), but the thing is, people took Peggy seriously for quite a while. McMegan angled for the “rhetorically defending the wealthy against the poors” thing a bit too enthusiastically, too early. You have to nuance these things when you’re auditioning for Republican-Ms.-Manners, and she’s extremely well-known as a lightweight flake who isn’t all that quick.

     

    Oh, the tragedy of the upper-middle-class striver-twit. Smart enough to know she’s not taken seriously, arrogant and insecure enough to care, but not smart enough to fix it. That’s gotta sting.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @grumbles:

    Oh, the tragedy of the upper-middle-class striver-twit. Smart enough to know she’s not taken seriously, arrogant and insecure enough to care, but not smart enough to fix it. That’s gotta sting.

    This is brilliant.

  29. 29.

    bbleh

    Yabbut don’t you see, MTG, and Matt “Not Yet Convicted Of Child Sex-Trafficking” Gaetz, and the rest of ’em deserve the subsidies, which we know because they are successful and because [insert religiostic argument of choice here]. On the other hand, these people Biden is giving our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars™ to, and also inflation something something, are just kids who went to elitist universities!

    Now could we get back to cutting taxes for billionaires and corporations and shoveling staggering amounts of (totally non-inflationary) money into military procurement please?  Thank you.

  31. 31.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Starfish:

    Looks around with haughty disdain, knowing in his heart he posted that clip in a thread downstairs.

    He’s a brilliant man. His depiction of Ray Charles was brilliant and his musicianship is extraordinary.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Oh, she’s entering the Find Out portal and no Mexican-American woman tears are gonna save her. Her fellow Mexican Americans are fucking pissed as well.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    Funny how these Republicans say Covid is fake, but still applied for all these Covid relief funds. Makes you think.

    — James Zipp (@james_zipp) August 25, 2022

  33. 33.

    Kristine

    @dmsilev:

    I’m sure that, right now, there are political reporters moaning about loss of civility and clutching at pearls en route to the nearest fainting couch.

    I did see one complaint along those lines. I don’t believe it was a journo, just a conservative complaining that Biden’s promise of a return to civility had apparently be forgotten. Someone replied that responding with facts isn’t uncivil.

  36. 36.

    eversor

    @Cacti:

    Because they are rual, white, Christians, with proper gender roles and Christian values, also they obey the god ordained natural order of things.   Therefoer they should have things.  And people who are not rural, not white, don’t follow gender roles, don’t follow the natural order, and do not follow traditional Christianity cannot be given anything and exist only to give up money.

    The entire National Conservatism thing is that they, due to their religion, own the joint.  Everything for them is socialized and their culture is enforced by law.  Everyone else is allowed to live here and pay for their stuff, but they get no input into anything and don’t get to speak out.

  39. 39.

    HinTN

    @Steeplejack: No it doesn’t. It’s free fucking money. They’re lampreys, or remora, I’m too drunk to know. That they’re opportunistic assholes no amount of drink will obscure.

  40. 40.

    Suzanne

    @Cacti:

    “Farmers and ranchers shouldn’t have to pay” 

    Why the fuck not? I didn’t inherit property.

    College is a luxury good to these people, completely unlike the $80K pickup truck.

  41. 41.

    Ken

    @dmsilev: I’m sure that, right now, there are political reporters moaning about loss of civility and clutching at pearls en route to the nearest fainting couch.

    If any of the usual suspects seems suspiciously silent, I’d bet it’s because there’s a “THIS YOU?” with their name on it.

  45. 45.

    The Thin Black Duke

    Don’t overcomplicate things, folks.

    The GOP imagine themselves as royalty.

    They’re kings and queens. Everybody else are serfs.

    And they will kill to preserve the natural order of things.

    Our mistake is not taking them seriously.

  50. 50.

    Cacti

    Remember, Joe Biden was the guy who reduced Rudy Giuliani’s public career to:

    “A noun, a verb, and 9/11”.

  51. 51.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Think you may possibly be conflating Megan McArdle with Meghan McCain. Equally awful, but different.

    There’s a third horrific individual in this group:

    Megyn Kelly took shots at Dr. Anthony Fauci over his cavalier attitude about a possible GOP investigation into his work during the Covid pandemic.

    On the Wednesday edition of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, she gave one last goodbye to the White House Chief Medical Advisor, who will be retiring in December.

    Kelly was reacting to Fauci who was asked about a possible GOP congressional investigation surrounding his work. Fauci spoke with CNN’s John Berman about it earlier this week, saying he had nothing to hide.

    “Fuck you, Dr. Fauci. You don’t get to say whether you go — you get a congressional subpoena, you show up or you get the Steve Bannon treatment!” Kelly added.

    h/t https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fck-you-dr-fauci-megyn-kelly-rages-at-outgoing-medical-advisor-for-saying-hell-consider-a-congressional-subpoena/

    Of the three of them, I personally find Megyn Kelly the most vile and repulsive. Megyn Kelly isn’t fit to shine Fauci’s shoes and built her career working for Fox News Channel, the most intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt media organization in America.

  54. 54.

    oldster

    @Starfish:

    Incredible impression — it’s both the most accurate one I. have heard, and yet also the first one that does not make me want to vomit.

    Jamie Foxx, man — what a talent.

  56. 56.

    FastEdD

    I’m here for the D’s throwing a few punches. If the other side is screaming and wailing you are doing a good job. Give us something to vote FOR.

    In other news, they found a dead body dumped by the side of our remote country road this morning. I had to spend two hours talking to sheriffs trying to let me get back to my own house because the road was blocked off. OTOH sure is quiet tonight. Trade off I guess.

  58. 58.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Can’t spell BiDEn without…*

    * Yes I know there is 0% chance Biden runs (or even knows he has) his Twitter account.

  59. 59.

    Baud

    @oldster:

    yet also the first one that does not make me want to vomit.

     
    Same. I think it’s because Foxx has a way of making Trump look especially clownish and pathetic.

  60. 60.

    eclare

    @HumboldtBlue:   I commented in a dead thread that my Indian friend in Plano goes to the Kroger in the shopping center where she assaulted those women.  Small world.

  63. 63.

    Starfish

    Would someone like to tsk tsk the White House for not taking the feelings of rich people who got PPP loans into account?

    Old fogey here: If Democrats want to defend the student loan forgiveness program by attacking critics whose businesses took PPP loans (I’m doubtful this really works politically, but whatever), they’re free to so. But it shouldn’t be done from the @WhiteHouse account.
    — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 25, 2022

  64. 64.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​

    MSNBC are featuring it right now. Joe went off. He just used the second half of FAFO.

    And this Gadsden flag meme is brilliant.

    @Starfish:

    Bask in your glory, madam/sir, let the laughter sustain you.

    @eclare:

    Yes, I saw you write you had forwarded the clip, just like on the political front, I am sensing the pushback against this blatant racism, this hate, this entire modern GOP drive to be as nasty, as ugly, as hateful as possible has reached a tipping point. The voter registration numbers — particularly among women — are eye-opening and provide some hope that this mid-term will be completely unlike any in the past.

  65. 65.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Anyone on Facebook, this is why you don’t have family as your FB friends!  LOL!!  (read the comments, especially those with 20+ replies)

  66. 66.

    Gravenstone

    @Wyatt Salamanca: you get a congressional subpoena, you show up or you get the Steve Bannon treatment

    Only if the DOJ agrees and enforces it, you ignorant waste of skin.

  69. 69.

    Kevin

    I f-ing love everything about this.

    Student loan forgiveness is a drop in the bucket compared to all the corporate welfare (PPP included) the GOP doles out.

  70. 70.

    Cacti

    @UncleEbeneezer: Reminds me of a story from the Atlantic about him and his old man:

    I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof. Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the first Bush administration.

    The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle’s chief of staff, and how he got his start in politics. Irving recalled how he talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to Pat Moynihan, then Nixon’s domestic policy adviser, and got William an internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC [Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.

    With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. ‘I oppose it,’ Irving replied. ‘It subverts meritocracy.’

  72. 72.

    FastEdD

    @Starfish: Bloody Bill Kristol. I am glad he is wrong again. He used to be wrong about everything, then he was anti-TFG, and now he is back to being wrong. Good.

  74. 74.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Cacti: Oh believe me, I know.  My Dad was a This Week w/David Brinkley fan who watched it because he loved Kristol and George Will.

  77. 77.

    dm

    This White House twit stream is really very clever: the targets can’t  gin up fauxtrage about it without calling attention to it, and that would be attention they don’t want.

  79. 79.

    eclare

    @HumboldtBlue:   Here is hoping.  And my friend votes D in every election.  He has had his eyes opened by people who he thought were friends that voted for TFG.

  80. 80.

    Ken

    @dm: Last night, someone commented that a lot of people are about to find out about the Barbra Streisand effect.

  81. 81.

    hueyplong

    @Gravenstone: So if I have this straight, Megyn Kelly is threatening Fauci in response to his having taken lightly a threat by a different RWNJ media gabber.

    • So all you have is threats?  No policy, just threats?
    • No, and if you say that again, I’ll have your legs broken.
  85. 85.

    planetjanet

    Biden is on a roll. The DNC just texted out a quote “Every election is a choice. My dad used to say: ‘Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.’ Well the alternative to the Democrats is the MAGA Republicans.”

  86. 86.

    wombat probabilty cloud

    Long travel day, so I just saw this a few minutes ago over at kos, and my first thought was, “Cole will really, really like this.”

  88. 88.

    HumboldtBlue

    @different-church-lady:

    I think he’s doing classic Joe. He knows there are still decent people in the GOP, and while we may find that hard to swallow, we also know that to be true.

    He’s creating a wedge in the GOP, that helps us, because it’s going to mean you’re either MAGA or some other form of GOPer and I guarantee you he is certain he can capture them. From what I’ve seen in the past 18 months, I can’t doubt him.

    Biden has been extraordinary good and successful at politics since he’s sat down at the Resolute desk.

  89. 89.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    This is so yesterday, but since Fauci-bashing is already in the thread

    dward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere Aug 24

    “Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.”
    Anthony Fauci’s height: 5’7”
    Ron DeSantis’s height: 5’9”

    I wonder if Marco’s going to tell Ron where he can buy booster-boots

    not kidding when I say I wonder how tall Crist is….

  90. 90.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @HumboldtBlue: Are you MAGA or normie R? That’s a hell of a lot more savvy than “two baskets”, let me tell you.

    ETA normie R or R-leaning independent…

  93. 93.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    White House, if you can hear me:

    Since congressman Mike Kelly says he hates Wall Street and Lawyers, total up all the donations he’s taken from them and post it.

  94. 94.

    Another Scott

    @Starfish: Says Bloody Bill Kristol who is on the board of trustees of the Manhattan Institute – the group that pays the vile Rufo as a Senior Fellow.

    Cry me a river, Bloody Bill.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  95. 95.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:

    @atrupar 

    Biden winds down his speech in Maryland: “In this moment, those of you who love this country — Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans — we must be stronger, more determined, & more committed to saving American than the MAGA Republicans are to destroying America”

    “If we the people stand together, we will prevail” (video)

  98. 98.

    RSA

    @Starfish: Kristol:

    But it shouldn’t be done from the @WhiteHouse account.

    WTF?  The White House account is responding to Congressional Representatives’ accounts

    ETA: Thanks for the Jamie Foxx link. That was excellent.

  99. 99.

    hilts

    Depressed after his 2008 presidential flop, Rudy Giuliani and his third wife, Judith Giuliani, secretly moved into a bungalow across from Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Giuliani recovered from his political humiliation and started to drink heavily, according to a new book by Andrew Kirtzman. The bungalow was connected to Mar-a-Lago by a tunnel underneath South Ocean Boulevard, Kirtzman writes, according to The Guardian, which read an advance copy.

    The tunnel is “one of many little-known passages and rooms beneath the expansive resort,” The Guardian reports. “The secret route allowed the couple to come and go from Trump’s home without the media knowing.”

    Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold notes that the tunnels underneath Mar-a-Lago are actually part of the public record — though the Secret Service presumably locked them down after Trump was elected president.

    As Kirtzman’s book, Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor, nears its September publication, The Guardian reports, “underground rooms at Mar-a-Lago are in the news, after the FBI searched some for classified material taken from the White House at the end of Trump’s four years as president.”

     

    h/t https://www.yahoo.com/news/mar-lago-underground-tunnels-book-115700832.html

  101. 101.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    in which Marco Rubio writes a campaign ad for Val Demmings

    Jim DeFede @DeFede· 2h

    “I do not believe that the dignity and the worth of human life is tied to the circumstances of their conception. But I recognize that that’s not a majority position.” – @marcorubio on why he personally opposes abortion in all cases including rape and incest. @CBSMiami

    Here’s hoping Nixon’s twitter ghost is right

    Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 26m

    Dumb as hell. Dumb. Dumb. He doesn’t need to shore up his right. The party does that for him. All those people will turn out anyway. This is the act of someone sweating into his eyes. My God, all Demings has to do is go to Orlando and Tampa and Jupiter and say, “I’m a mother.”

  102. 102.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @HumboldtBlue: ​

    I guarantee you he is certain he can capture them.

    Whether or not there are a few actually convertible moderate Republicans, there are a lot of Democrats and squishies who will turn away from any politician who doesn’t sound like the reasonable adult in the room.

  103. 103.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Oh, and did anyone else hear that Truth Social is deep underwater and owes a million and a half to its internet provider?  Truth Social stopped paying its bills awhile ago.  No one could have predicted that!

  105. 105.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​
      Lil’ Marco believes in the dignity and worth of life, unless they’re children from Central America then he wants to put them in cages and strip them from their mothers forever.

  107. 107.

    SFBayAreaGal

    Taken from Daily Kos.

    “Twitter users are calling out conservatives whining about “free money” with the phrase “this you?” Users are posting the phrase and tagging those who complain on the social media app alongside screenshots of the “free money” they received, many of which reflect amounts way beyond $10,000.

    A thread with a compilation of the call-outs has made it easier to keep up with identifying those who received thousands in aid from the government and are now complaining.”

  108. 108.

    Suzanne

    @HumboldtBlue:

    He knows there are still decent people in the GOP, and while we may find that hard to swallow, we also know that to be true. 

    Eh, at this point, if you’re still on that train, that’s on you, yanno? #AGOPAB

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    @Starfish:

    Screw you, Bill Kristol.

    The calculation about doing this from the White House account is it guarantees the kind of cable news coverage that it absolutely wouldn’t get if it was just done under the name of a White House staffer. It’s playing by the rules of the game that Republicans established.

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) August 25, 2022

  111. 111.

    Jeffro

    @Steeplejack: agree with Schooley.

    It just. feels. good. to be swinging, swinging away righteously at these hypocrites.

    It rallies the troops.  It puts the GQP on their back foot – “what, the Dems are fighting back?”  It also has the benefit of being true.

  113. 113.

    SFAW

    @Wyatt Salamanca: ​
     

    Fauci spoke with CNN’s John Berman about it earlier this week, saying he had nothing to hide.

    “Fuck you, Dr. Fauci. You don’t get to say whether you go

    So Fauci said he had nothing to hide — NOT that he would refuse a subpoena — and Meggy responds with “Fuck You” and implied he’d refuse? What a moran.

  115. 115.

    Jackie

    President Biden has no f’s left to give. He gave quite a fiery speech tonight!

    “Exuberant over a string of recent legislative victories, and launching his midterm campaigning in earnest, President Joe Biden swaggered into Maryland on Thursday and excoriated his predecessor’s philosophy as “semi-fascism,” in what constituted an unusually pointed and highly charged denunciation of Republicans.
    “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told Democratic donors in the Washington suburb of Rockville. Calling out those he labeled as “extreme” Republicans, Biden said: “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.””
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/biden-trump-philosophy-semi-fascism-00053831

  116. 116.

    Cathie from Canada

    The White House tweets tonight are being done by a brilliant young woman from New Jersey who started Aug 1 – I saw a tweet about her tonight but can’t find it now. She used to do tweets from the NJ govt and people loved her.

    The  “Thanks, Obama” tweet last week was apparently also one of hers.

    An excellent hire!

  117. 117.

    PaulB

    @SFAW:  So Fauci said he had nothing to hide — NOT that he would refuse a subpoena — and Meggy responds with “Fuck You” and implied he’d refuse? What a moran.

    No. Fauci said elsewhere in that interview that he would “consider” appearing before Congress in response to a subpoena. That is what Kelly was ranting about.

    The rant is actually on target, but she is, of course, guilty of massive hypocrisy, since she has not given similar rants about all the Trump supporters ignoring Democratic Congressional subpoenas.

  118. 118.

    Miss Bianca

    @Starfish: Oh, good, now I can go back to despising Bill Kristol. It was kind of weird seeing “Always Wrong” Bill K on our side and calling things accurately for a change.

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